Starring Jeff Chandler, Faith Domergue, Lyle Bettger, Peter Whitney,
Stacy Harris
Directed by Lloyd Bacon

Print: color
Runtime: 80 min.
Genre: western
Print Quality: B

Several genuine Native Americans dot the cast of Universal's The Great
Sioux Uprising. The scene is the frontier outpost of Laramie Junction,
where livery stable owner Joan Britton (Faith Domergue) and rancher
Stephen Cook (Lyle Bettger) carry on a friendly rivalry while trading
horses with the cavalry. On friendly terms with the local Sioux, Joan
hopes to persuade the tribe to sell some of its ponies to the military.
Cook's method is more direct: he and his men steal the horses, then sell
them for a 100% profit. Into this situation rides ex-Union medical officer
Jonathan Westgate (Jeff Chandler), who promises Apache chief Red
Cloud (John War Eagle) that he'll track down the rustlers. Westgate also
organizes the local ranchers to sell their horses to the military, thereby
undercutting the duplicitous Cook. Complications arise when Stand
Waite, an Apache officer in the Confederate army, tries to persuade his
tribesmen to join the Southern cause. All the various plotlines converge
in the climactic uprising, which is shown to be the by-product of white
greed.